Programme Policy Officer- Livelihoods (SC,L8), Cairo, Egypt

 

Programme Policy Officer- Livelihoods (SC,L8), Cairo, Egypt

JOB PURPOSE

To provide support to policy and programme activities that effectively contribute to livelihoods and economic empowerment of vulnerable communities, with focus on women, aiming to increase their self-reliance and food security.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

 Provide management support to livelihoods and economic empowerment programmes and projects of considerable size/complexity, ensuring a coordinated approach with wider programmes.

 Support in the development of a wide variety of projects, plans and processes, ensuring alignment with national strategies and WFP policies and guidance.

 Research and analyze a range of policy and operational information, approaches and trends to support senior colleagues in the development of livelihood resilience and economic empowerment policies, programmes and activities, responding to needs of vulnerable communities.

 Prepare and monitor budgets for new and ongoing livelihood interventions, analyze and report on financial status and outcomes of projects, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.

 Contribute to strengthening capacities of government stakeholders, national partners, NGOs, as well as WFP staff to prepare for and manage interventions on livelihoods, gender equality and women’s empowerment and entrepreneurship, and including digitalization and digital marketing.

 Manage data gathering and monitoring systems from the field, including needs assessments, baseline and endline assessments, and other, while confirming rigorous quality standards are maintained.

Additional Key Accountabilities:

 Support the identification, development and management of potential partnerships to ensure collaborative relationship leading to improved livelihoods.

 Contribute to the preparation of accurate and timely reporting on programmes and activities that enable informed decision making and consistency of information presented to stakeholders.

 Liaise with internal and external counterparts to ensure effective collaboration, monitor ongoing projects and highlight potential risks to project delivery.

 Take responsibility for integrating protection and gender perspectives in all areas of work, to ensure equal participation of women and men in livelihoods and empowerment.

 Contribute to the preparation of proposals, progress and analytical reports, briefs, visibility material and information products corporately and for donors.

 Oversee the performance of implementing partners and local stakeholders in relation to all assigned activities, including training, lending financial and operational management, preparation of technical progress reports, financial cash flows, visibility and other.

 Participate in different periodic meetings or workshops with local stakeholders and undertake briefing/awareness sessions with relevant partners as needed.

 Perform other duties assigned by the supervisor and Head of Programme.

4Ps CORE ORGANISATIONAL CAPABILITIES

Purpose

 Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Understands WFP’s Strategic Objectives and the link to own work objectives.

 Be a force for positive change: Flexibly adapts individual contributions to accommodate changes in direction from supervisors and internal/external changes (such as evolving needs of beneficiaries, new requirements of partners).

 Make the mission inspiring to our team: Recognizes and shares with team members the ways in which individual contributions relate to WFP’s mission.

 Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Sets own goals in alignment with WFP’s overall operations, and is able to communicate this link to others.

People

 Look for ways to strengthen people's skills: Assesses own strengths and weaknesses to increase self-awareness, and includes these in conversations on own developmental needs.

 Create an inclusive culture: Participates in open dialogue, and values the diverse opinion of others, regardless of background, culture, experience, or country assignment.

 Be a coach & provide constructive feedback: Proactively seeks feedback and coaching to build confidence, and develop and improve individual skills.

 Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit: Participates in accomplishing team activities and goals in the face of challenging circumstances.

Performance

 Encourage innovation & creative solutions: Shows willingness to explore and experiment with new ideas and approaches in own work.

 Focus on getting results: Consistently delivers results within individual scope of work on time, on budget and without errors.

 Make commitments and make good on commitments: Commits to upholding individual accountabilities and responsibilities in the face of ever-changing country or functional priorities.

 Be Decisive: Makes rational decisions about individual activities when faced with uncertain circumstances, including in times of ambiguity regarding information or manager direction.

Partnership

 Connect and share across WFP units: Seeks to understand and adapt to internal or cross-unit teams’ priorities and preferred working styles.

 Build strong external partnerships: Demonstrates ability to understand and appropriately respond to and/or escalate needs of external partners.

 Be politically agile & adaptable: Portrays an informed and professional demeanor toward internal and external partners and stakeholders.

 Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships: Provides operational support on analyses and assessments that quantifies and demonstrates WFP’s unique value as a partner.

FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITIES

Capability Name

Description of the behaviour expected for the proficiency level

Programme Lifecycle & Food Assistance

Demonstrates ability to identify key variables and contextual factors that affect food assistance problems and programmes throughout the lifecycle to inform quality programme design or re-design.

Transfer Modalities (Food, Cash, Voucher)

Demonstrates ability to analyse and consolidate quantitative and qualitative information from different sources (e.g., market studies) to inform transfer modality selection and programme development.

Broad Knowledge of Specialized areas (i.e. Nutrition, VAM, etc.)

Demonstrates the ability to interpret basic data in the context of WFP specialised fields to contribute to technical programme design, implementation and monitoring.

Emergency Programming

Displays capacity to provide inputs into the development, implementation and realignment of high quality emergency programmes.

Strategic Policy Engagement w/ Government

Develops thorough recommendations using multiple inputs (e.g., government counsel, research, own experience) to strengthen national or subnational entities and government owned food and nutrition security programmes.

Compensations and Benefits

DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE

 Has gained experience in implementing technical programs (for example: women’s empowerment, livelihoods, financial inclusion, education, nutrition, information management, etc.

 Has implemented programmes and provided input into designing operations, managing and monitoring.

 Has experience in providing technical support to the government and input into policy discussions and decisions.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

This is a one-year contracts, extension will be subject to satisfactory performance and fund availability.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

Deadline for submitting the online applications will be on the 23rd of February 2023.

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